Post by rikita on Jul 18, 2010 22:46:14 GMT

Post by bixaorellana on Jul 19, 2010 0:46:57 GMT

Good grief -- that delicate shading & texture that you caught is amazing, Rikita. And the musculature and construction of the wing adds to the picture, but is most interesting as well.

Rikita, have you given any thought to assembling some of your bird pictures into a separate thread? It could go in Post Cards maybe, so that it could be found and re-visited easily. You have so many good ones here that just get lost in the shuffle, especially since this particular thread seems to be degenerating into more chat than photographic topic.

Post by rikita on Jul 19, 2010 21:41:26 GMT

i will look at it bixa... i was planning to do a photo thread at some point again (similar to the carneval one - but i was more thinking of one for one of my cycling tours or similar) - just a matter of time though, but i will at some point...

Post by rikita on Jul 19, 2010 21:43:40 GMT

well i suppose insects are wild life too... that one is very nice colour-wise and with the lighter and darker fern! one thing i would like even better is if the butterfly wasn't quite as much to the top of the picture (mainly because one of the ... um, dunno the english word, the long things at the end of the head ... seems to be a bit cut off) but that is just a little thing - it is a great picture.

Post by bixaorellana on Apr 11, 2011 2:58:39 GMT

Post by Kimby on Apr 15, 2011 18:58:25 GMT

This Great Grey Owl has been hanging around our lake cottage the past couple weeks. First one I've ever seen in my life. They are not common and normally live farther north, coming south mainly during hard winters when their prey gets hard to find. They hunt rodents under the snow, using their hearing to locate their prey and diving INTO the snow to catch it.! The large facial disks act like satellite dishes to funnel sound to their ears which are near their eyes.

Post by bixaorellana on Apr 17, 2011 19:39:40 GMT

Cheery, you have such a good eye and obviously the skill and patience to go with it. Really wonderful photos! Even though I flipped over the perfection of the fuzzy fellow on the marigold, every single one of these are marvelous. Besides the clarity of the insects you captured, there are wonderful details, such as the blush on the apple blossom & the veins & wetness on the moth's green leaves.

The swallows kill me! I have tried so hard to capture them with the camera, swooping and clicking and catching nothing but blurry sky.

Post by cheerypeabrain on Apr 18, 2011 9:00:30 GMT

You are very kind Bixa dear...they're just photographs tho ;D These days with digital technology being so good and downloading your images being so simple I think that you can turn out quite nice images relatively easily. My camera isn't a very advanced or expensive one...just a point and shoot. Opportunity is the key tho isn't it? ;D

Post by bjd on Apr 18, 2011 15:48:39 GMT

Post by bixaorellana on Apr 18, 2011 18:53:39 GMT

Ha ~~ good one, Imec!

I don't care what Cheery ( ) says, there is a great deal of talent involved in being alert to good photo opportunities and staying calm enough to capture them well, not to mention the composition, etc., as Imec shows so beautifully.